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DORA helps teams and organizations improve their software-driven value delivery, and SPACE provides a framework for improving productivity. (Fun fact: DORA is an instance of SPACE, as a measure of the performance of software.) I’d also like to point out that I’ve long advocated the importance of using system-based and people-based data in complementary ways, and you can’t really improve software delivery or productivity if you fail to take a user-centric view of your system. In software engineering, your users are your develope
- A few rules for writing good surveys
- Survey items need to be carefully worded and every question should only ask one thing.
- If you want to compare results between surveys, you can’t change any wording – at all.
- If you change any wording, you must do rigorous statistical tests.
- I typically recommend that leaders hire or consult experts in these areas. At the very least, ensure to pre-test surveys with small groups before sending them out to their entire population.
- Sources
- System Based data
- Human Based data